Thursday, April 24, 2014

New Colony Six - At The River's Edge

We've posted about Chicago's New Colony Six before. It was a write-up on their debut single, I Confess/Dawn Is Breaking. You can read that here. Today we return with the Flip-Side of their second single, At The River's Edge. The single was released in April of 1966 on Centaur Records, a subsidiary of Cameo Parkway Records, and was composed by band member, Craig Wally Kemp. The band soon took a softer approach to their music, but this was a raver in the first order.

Centaur Records (aka Sentar) was indeed distributed by USA Records in 1965 and the first part of 1966. The NC6's first 5 singles then would have been distributed by USA. Starting with their 6th release with I Love You So Much, in December of 1966, however, Sentar was distributed by Cameo-Parkway and is reflected that way on the labels.

A good resource for this stuff, if you are as nerdy as me, is http://45-sleeves.com